African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which ...

Scientists say they have calculated the date at which the African and the Asian elephant went their separate ways. The two elephant species diverged from a common ancestor some 7.6 million years ago, ...

Female Asian elephants usually don’t have tusks at ... The journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution reported last year that such programs “often face severe criticism due to insufficient ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A genetic study of Asian elephants in northern Cambodia published Thursday reveals a larger and more robust population than previously thought, raising hopes the ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...